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Poetry
SHANE OMAR   Prelude  /  Running Wire  /  Dear John
ASH BOWEN   Based on a True Story /  Collect Call
LUCIA PERILLO   At the Hatchery
RACHEL HADAS   Macbeth
BRIAN TEARE   Star Thistle (Centaurea solstitialis)
JAMES ARTHUR   In Praise of the Indeterminate  /  Utopia
BOB HICOK   The gift  /  beast empathy
CARRIE SHIPERS   Ezekiel  /  Babel

Fiction
JOHN PICARD   Souvenir de Paris, 2002
EMILY MITCHELL   On Friendship
REYNA FEIGHNER BOOTH   Cat People
JUSTIN QUARRY   Home Schooling
KIRSTIN ALLIO   Green
MARY RECHNER   The Loop Trail
WILLIAM DONOGHUE   The Handbag Incident

Provocations
ROGER SHATTUCK   Nineteen Theses on Literature

Remembrances
ROBERT WEIL   Remembering Roger Shattuck

Art
PETER PLAGENS   Leo Castelli and the New World

Translations
BUDDHADEVA BOSE   Gagan Baran’s Tale, from My Kind of Girl 
(translated by ARUNAVA SINHA)
PHILIPPE JACCOTTET   Blazon in Green and White
(translated by LUKE HANKINS)

Literary Criticism
IRA SADOFF   Poetic Memory, Poetic Design

Film
JOHN A. BERTOLINI   Psycho at Fifty: Pure Cinema or Invitation to an Orgy? 

Literary Lives
TED BERRIGAN   A Letter to Sandy   /   Notes on A Book of Poetry for Sandy 

Reports from Abroad
ERIC CALDERWOOD   The Road to Damascus

Rediscoveries
ANTHONY TROLLOPE   Cuba

Cover art: Michael Mewborn

Contributors’ Notes

COVER ARTIST: Michael Mewborn